manipulable, tractable - easily managed (controlled or taught or molded); "tractable young minds"; "the natives...being...of an intelligent tractable disposition"- Samuel Butler
Duterte's mouth being all but tamable, it's the people surrounding the President that the Presidential Communications Group is deliberately tapping to bend the narrative their way.
Escape captures the age-old feature of fairy stories acting as comforting reminders that the Perilous Realm is tamable and, though here there be monsters indeed, there is no absence of heroes who stand against evil.
Perhaps in the long run capitalism is not tamable. Defenders of the idea of revolutionary ruptures with capitalism have always claimed that taming capitalism was an illusion, a diversion from the task of building a political movement to overthrow capitalism.
It first ensures that the diversity of tactics, people, and expertise be made to assume the fact of "the state." It secondly ensures that through this rubric both the land and the people are governed: "the people" are governed in the name of "the state," and "the state" in the name of "the people." This shapes reality in the light of such a "fact." (13) In the tribal belt, therefore, the land has turned up as an object of multiple tamable techniques, as forest areas are being made passable to counter infiltration, checkpoints created to decide on admissibility, watchtowers erected to track the movement of bodies and goods, zones ("red," "green," or "buffer") demarcated to evaluate the writ of the nation-state, and the land of rebels auctioned to deprive them of finances.
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